Thailand - backed by China - is pushing to dismantle scam centres in Myanmar's Myawaddy area, part of a network of illicit and highly lucrative operations across Southeast Asia where hundreds of ...

Instead, he was picked up at the airport and driven to a scam center in Myanmar’s Myawaddy, a notorious cyber-fraud hub across the border from Thailand. Wang is among hundreds of thousands of ...

The Karen National Liberation Army says that it defeated around 72 regime troops trying to reinforce a base on the border with Thailand in Karen State.

The high school student, 17, was offered the chance to visit Thailand by a Japanese man he became acquainted with through an online game and stayed temporarily in Myawaddy. The 29-year-old man was ...

These operations are centered in Myawaddy, a region on Myanmar's border with Thailand that has become a hotspot for organized internet fraud networks. These scams are not only run by Burmese ...

“Many people use Thailand as a pathway to sneak themselves into Myawaddy to find work, and this is not just the call center gangs but also online gambling work and other professions,” Thatchai ...

Thailand's opposition People's Party lawmaker Rangsiman Rome had told VOA that the Myawaddy area in Myanmar, opposite the Thai border town of Mae Sot, is the "global capital" of scams. The Indian ...

Under the radar destinations in Thailand that are essentially hidden gems that you must visit once, that offer great ...

Satellite images of the Myawaddy region in Myanmar captured on February 20, 2025 after Thailand started to cut "three supplies" Photo: Courtesy of International Research Center of Big Data for ...